[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

Sun Aug 12 17:10:16 CEST 2007

Talin wrote:
> One final thing I wanted to mention, which Guido reminded me, is that 
> we're getting short on time. This PEP has not yet been officially 
> accepted, and the reason is because of the lack of an implementation. I 
> don't want to miss the boat. (The boat in this case being Alpha 1.)

I have hooked up the existing PEP 3101 sandbox implementation into the 
py3k branch as unicode.format(). It implements the earlier PEP syntax 
for specifiers.
I'm going to work on removing some cruft, adding tests, and then slowly 
change it over to use the new proposed specifier syntax.
Eric.